“I wrote [a] Vanity Fair essay [in 2014], which was kind of the first thing I had done in 10 years, where people involved in the media — particularly ridiculing me — stepped forward to sort of say they regretted their behavior,” Lewinsky tells Dr. Oz on his show, airing Friday. “David Letterman was one. I don’t remember the exact words . . . but I think he said he regretted having mocked me in the way that he did.”

Lewinsky also reveals, “I went to bed one night as a private person and woke up the next day . . . it was global humiliation.” And, “It was pretty bad. There were several moments . . . where I didn’t think I would make it. In the first few weeks of the investigation, my mom made sure I took a shower with the door open because she was worried I would take my own life.”